Kudoke 3 Polished 18ct Rose Gold (5N)

With excitement, we’ve waited for whatever comes next from Kudoke following their K1 and K2 success. Well, now it’s arrived – Introducing the Kudoke K3 in stainless steel.

From our perspective, one of the biggest challenges for every watchmaker is retaining the design language established for a collection without the timepieces becoming aesthetically monotonous. Here, the Kudoke K3 is a big swing, moving things in a new direction while maintaining a strong connection to its predecessors. While this timepiece has retained the same, “traditional” indication of minutes with a large blued hand and dial ring, it is the indication of hours that propels the collection’s evolution in the Kudoke 3.

Placed on an attached plate and divided into three dials on the level below the central dial, the hour is indicated with the help of a triple-armed hour hand, each hand with different lengths running between the two dials. When one arm of the hand reaches the end of the hour scale, the next longer or shorter arm appears at the beginning of the next hour scale. Hours 2, 6 and 10 are then shown twice on different scales before the current hand arm moves on. Maybe a call back to the triple-armed seconds hand on early Daniel Roth tourbillons, we’re excited to see this novel indication of time at play on a larger scale with hours.

As with previous models, the understated 39mm stainless steel case with classic onion crown and 10.3 mm case height provides an appropriate setting for this classic yet extravagant watch, the heart of which, KALIBER 1, is exposed through the sapphire crystal case back. This is yet another spectacular timepiece from Kudoke that balances high-level watchmaking with honest prices.